Behavioral health risks include:

■■ Commitment issues

■■ Untimely discharge

■■ Electroshock therapy

■■ Duty to warn

• If a therapist determines or should reasonably determine that a patient poses a serious threat of violence or danger to a third party, the therapist must exercise reasonable care to protect the third party and warn him or her of the impending danger.

■■ Flawed evaluation

■■ Inadequate care